pitch and toss

English

Noun

pitch and toss (uncountable)

1. A game played by tossing a coin and calling heads or tails.

   Synonym: heads or tails

2. A game in which coins are thrown at a mark, the person who throws nearest having the right of tossing all the coins, and keeping those which come down head uppermost.
3. (figurative) Careless treatment of something, or trusting to luck about it.
   • 1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 19, in Felix Holt, the Radical […], volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

     to play pitch and toss with the property of the country

Translations

game played by tossing a coin and calling heads or tails

• Finnish: kolikonheitto (fi), lantinheitto
• French: pile ou face (fr)
• Italian: testa o croce f
• Telugu: చిత్తాట (te) (cittāṭa)